You are now entering The Retro Railroading zone....

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Purveyor of the Forgotten
The scene opens with a non-descript office with a desk and chair being the focal point.

A Nattily dressed man with 1940s-50s garb enters the scene, sits on the edge of a desk, lights up his cigarette, and begins to speak...

"Joe Trainzer has just finished posting his latest thread foaming about GEVOS, CSX, BNSF, NS and fictional Class I railroad branches. Poor Joe has no idea how grand railroading was in the past, before modern days wiped out some of the greatest railroads in the world.

"What Joe Trainzer did not know was that a freak thunderstorm produces a bolt of lightning that strikes the power line outside his home."

"The electrical surge strikes our hapless Trainzer, transporting him in time and space...."

"You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Retro Railroading Zone!"

Various PRR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx5tHB_aw4g&list=PL055CD02C69171A7A&index=41

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNrPq0Li3P4&list=PL055CD02C69171A7A&index=42

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FzWh3Sqhnw&list=PL055CD02C69171A7A&index=43

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLVuj8C3THc&list=PL055CD02C69171A7A&index=44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu34hQfnlK4&list=PL055CD02C69171A7A&index=45

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNrPq0Li3P4&list=PL055CD02C69171A7A&index=46

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeVeuudxzg4&list=PL055CD02C69171A7A&index=47

Monon Documentary Parts 1 & 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtA2PR55fXQ&list=PL055CD02C69171A7A&index=59

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgO6NSUUT48

NKP Story 18 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtnUnKZP_8A

1940s trains in War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9rSHOMGRGk

Railroadin! 25 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W65eOOK9eZU

C&NW 28 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcqQUsZiksU

PRR steel wheels 14 mintes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a_2AZCcCFM

PRR Opening a new frontier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYWPSI8XU3U

PRR Clear track ahead 27 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UXuZxchOCA

NYC The Steam Locomotive 18 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBFdpBol3l4

PRR The Broadway Limited One hour and 15 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5OpOU4HFNY

NYC The Flight of the 20th century 17 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcC9laB3UFU

The Super Chief
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl_LoQ4vHDc

The California Zephyr 28 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruHTZ-3PrB0

Old PRR home made films merged together 44 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyKh4oVyH40

NYC Within the oval 22 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6EG3QgInc8

N&W in the 50s 24 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xf9CTEG5hE

NYC The Freight Yard 25 minute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dhQq3oxpgQ

UP Mighty Turbines 45 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uT_aYfTif4

UP Meet uncle pete 45 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWL7-Nr0n_w

SP "Daylighting the Padre's trail" 20 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMCvOSX5Xr0

Seaboard Air Line "New Horizons" 18 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aLRxq86GE8

Southern Pacific "This is my railroad" 29 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SspN6D3uF3s

ATSF Challenge for tommorrow 27 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5vEiqLwmq8

ATSF and Morris Knudson "Better way for the Santa Fe" 28 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsllGIKfPn0

Milwaukee Road Railroad at work 25 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdIYT3UsfAQ

New Haven RR 1942 39 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq_YcGK9aAU

Southern Railway "Via Sevier" 22 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyVfXtrylqs

Classic St Louis Railroads 35 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI_XPFnFAQo

Once upon the Wabash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3sh-KhGR6w

Illinois Railroads 1950s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElyERLwsV0c

"Joe Trainzer wakes back up in front of his somewhat scorched but functional computer, feeling a strange sense of loss, and wonders when he will fall back into the... Retro Railroading zone!"

**Note To those who have the correct plugins to download the movies, the software to merge parts 1 and 2s, and the ability to make MPG or WMV files out of these, you are going to be busy. BTW I found all of these in about an hour
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I've watched quite a few of these. The old New Haven one is fascinating because it shows the car shops and the old coal piles. This all disappeared before I came on the scene. I used to see many of the electric freight motors though when we'd drive to New York City from Massachusetts. I loved it when we'd get to New Haven and the electric service began because the New York Thruway followed the New Haven mainline, which is now part of the NEC.

John
 
On the DD40 video, it has a cab ride over Sherman Hill, and at 17 minutes, check out 3 dd40s pulling cattle cars!

Also at the end see the 6900s with SD60 demos in a consist...
 
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JCitron said:
I've watched quite a few of these. The old New Haven one is fascinating because it shows the car shops and the old coal piles. This all disappeared before I came on the scene. I used to see many of the electric freight motors though when we'd drive to New York City from Massachusetts. I loved it when we'd get to New Haven and the electric service began because the New York Thruway followed the New Haven mainline, which is now part of the NEC.

John
Click to expand...

It is indeed fascinating to see what used to be and see it on film.
 
i have an aero train video on the pittline that a friend gave me, and a video from a cab ride in the late fifty's on the Pitt line from Pittsburgh to Altoona and back including a winter and summer ride, ill post them as soon as i get permission.
plus godfatherrails.com is a great place for PRR pics in the late 40's and early to mid 50's
 
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conrail conclusion Details the Conrail Indianapolis line from Berea, Ohio to Union City, Indiana

part 1-1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG1qUQziHs0

part 1-2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF9MAhmJDLU

part 1-3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVejJ2qei_Q

part 1-4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XgoDcNoC40

part 1-5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I75edNIp8r4

part 1-6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iLpwLuLu60

part 1-7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVaHBEKdkSo

part 1-8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWxYOpkBnJY

part 1-9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BlOMO-idHM

Conrail Conclusion Details Conrail...rl]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t-MMBRw1-g

part 2-2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR2WwflRRGg

part 2-3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZBzo97G5m4

part 2-4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmf0PoWkiqY

part 2-5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBDuFIui3iQ

part 2-6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WUTgK50PqE

part 2-7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZgshUGAaOk

part 2-8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mch4dMSPwhI

Conrail Conclusion Details the Conrail Indianpolis Line - Columbus and Cincinatti lines

Part 3 all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L2D1GSsZ8w
 
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